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Month: August 2008

McCain’s veep pick Sarah Palin and technology

Saturday, August 30, 2008 11:02 am606 Comments

Republican presidential candidate John McCain announced his vice presidential running mate yesterday, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin…

AP hit piece conjures up old iPod, iPhone ‘woes’

Friday, August 29, 2008 4:53 pm30 Comments

First an iPhone price cut left early buyers feeling foolish, and then came reports that some iPods were spitting sparks…

‘Mac cloner’ Psystar: Apple illegally destroys competition

Friday, August 29, 2008 3:28 pm93 Comments

n a move that could profoundly alter the face of the personal computer market, upstart Mac cloner Psystar…

TinyBooks 6 released; family and small business accounting software for Mac

Friday, August 29, 2008 2:36 pm21 Comments

Ken Winograd and Space-Time Associates announced today the release of a new version of the Mac…

Comcast officially caps monthly Internet use at 250GB

Friday, August 29, 2008 1:41 pm78 Comments

Comcast Corp., the nation’s second-largest Internet service provider, Thursday said it would set an official limit…

Analyst: Most Canuck iPhone users ‘not yet into the guts’ of what Apple’s device can really deliver

Friday, August 29, 2008 1:19 pm34 Comments

Most of Canada’s iPhone users seem to prefer the multimedia device for talking,…

RUMOR: China Mobile to subsidize Apple iPhone

Friday, August 29, 2008 11:52 am38 Comments

China Mobile and Apple have decided to rely upon handset subsidies to bring Apple’s iPhone to China…

Juice Pack for iPod touch just as sweet as Juice Pack for iPhone

Friday, August 29, 2008 11:20 am11 Comments

It’s been a good summer for iPod touch owners. First Apple included the touch right…

Analyst: Apple finally catching up U.S. iPhone 3G supply to demand

Friday, August 29, 2008 10:00 am15 Comments

After more than six weeks of almost constant iPhone 3G shortages, Apple is finally known…

RUMOR: Apple and AT&T prepping iPhone tethering plan

Friday, August 29, 2008 8:55 am56 Comments

According to a pretty legitimate-looking email thread from one of our readers, Steve Jobs…

Apple releases Apple ProRes QuickTime Decoder 1.0 for Mac and Windows

Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:58 pm8 Comments

Apple today released the Apple ProRes QuickTime Decoder 1.0 for Mac and Windows…

Apple iPods aid U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan

Thursday, August 28, 2008 7:25 pm53 Comments

The U.S. military went into Iraq with few troops able to speak Arabic. Now they can use their iPods to do the talking for them…

Google reveals Apple App Store-like ‘Android Market’ for Android-based phones

Thursday, August 28, 2008 7:02 pm27 Comments

Google today shared early details of “Android Market,” an open content distribution system…

Beleaguered Dell’s earnings plummet 17% as PC box assembler sees slowdown

Thursday, August 28, 2008 5:18 pm63 Comments

Dell Inc. said Thursday that its fiscal second-quarter earnings fell 17% from a year ago…

Rogers extends limited-time iPhone prices, revamps data plans

Thursday, August 28, 2008 5:07 pm9 Comments

Rogers Communications Inc. is revamping its data rate plans and extending a limited-time offer on the iPhone…

Panic updates Coda to version 1.5; one-window web development for Apple Mac

Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:27 pm10 Comments

Panic this week update to Coda, its web development application. According to the company…

College students buying Macs in record numbers

Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:25 pm23 Comments

In this back-to-school season, college kids are buying Macs in numbers never seen before…

Bare Bones ships BBEdit 9.0

Thursday, August 28, 2008 2:59 pm9 Comments

Bare Bones Software today announced the immediate availability of BBEdit 9.0, an upgrade to…

Sony unveils four ‘Xplod’ Apple iPod-compatible car stereos

Thursday, August 28, 2008 2:21 pm22 Comments

Sony has announced four new Xplod (in-dash head units that are able to connect directly to compatible iPod music players…

Why the iPhone 3G sometimes dropped calls and what Apple’s iPhone 2.0.2 fixed

Thursday, August 28, 2008 1:21 pm21 Comments

Our source close to AT&T helped illuminate why the update was necessary, what the problem was…

Apple patent application describes ‘MacBook touch’

Thursday, August 28, 2008 1:09 pm58 Comments

Apple has been developing interface technology that would allow for a multi-touch handheld with full Mac OS X…

Vimpelcom inks deal with Apple to sell iPhone 3G in Russia

Thursday, August 28, 2008 11:12 am3 Comments

Vimpelcom, Russia’s second-largest mobile phone operator, said on Thursday it had inked a distribution deal with Apple Inc…

Twentieth Century Fox unveils 20 new DIGITAL COPY films; iPod-, iPhone-, Apple TV-ready DVDs

Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:56 am25 Comments

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment offers consumers flexibility with the release of several best-selling DVDs with DIGITAL COPY…

Bloomberg News mistakenly runs Steve Jobs’ obituary

Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:14 amTuesday, October 17, 202353 Comments

Steve Jobs. The story, marked ‘Hold for release – Do not use’, was sent in error to the news service’s thousands of corporate clients…

Music cartels pull select singles from iTunes Store in attempt to force ‘album’ bundle sales again

Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:10 am89 Comments

iTunes has been the runaway hit of the music business, selling more than five billion song downloads…

Get ready for new Apple iPods, overhauled MacBooks, and refreshed iMacs

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 4:47 pm50 Comments

With a multinational iPhone 3G launch now successfully under its belt…

iPhone software developers stifled under Apple’s gag order

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 2:20 pm49 Comments

By creating games and other programs for the iPhone, software developers hoped to find millions of new customers…

Orange denies paying people to line up for Apple iPhone launch in Poland

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 2:07 pm17 Comments

Newswires have been buzzing with reports that Apple’s 3G iPhones…

CNET writer looks at ‘The colossal failure that is Microsoft Windows Vista’

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:28 pm51 Comments

If you needed any further testament to the colossal failure that is Microsoft Windows Vista…

Report: Apple on verge of opening retail store in Belfast

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 1:14 pm17 Comments

Electronics giant Apple is on the verge of opening a store in Belfast…

Apple reintroduces iPhone ‘Passcode Lock’ flaw (with workaround)

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:04 pm14 Comments

Apple’s iPhone offers users an optional “Passcode Lock,” which allows users to enter a four-digit passcode to limit access to the device…

Additional testing of Apple iPhone’s 3G antenna again shows completely normal results

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:55 am29 Comments

Eva Wieselgren, a journalist in Sweden, originally presented the findings of a study by Bluetest earlier…

Windows worm loose on International Space Station; Mac-using astronauts unaffected

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:39 am61 Comments

Nasa [sic] has confirmed that laptops carried to the ISS in July were infected with a virus known as Gammima.AG…

ASA rules iPhone ad ‘misleading’ in UK; says must not be broadcast again

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 9:07 am57 Comments

The U.K.’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) is the independent body set up by the advertising industry…

Because Windows isn’t good enough: ‘Mac cloner’ Psystar to countersue Apple alleging antitrust

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 7:48 pm67 Comments

US-based Mac clone maker Psystar plans to file its answer to Apple’s copyright infringement lawsuit…

Apple iPhone 3Gs now outnumber first-gen iPhones

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 5:06 pm34 Comments

Some time in the next week more than 6 million iPhone 3Gs will be in people’s hands around the world…

Mac adoption in enterprise increases four-fold in less than two years

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:17 pm21 Comments

Apple’s success with consumers has begun to spill over into the enterprise market, with Mac adoption…

New addiction courtesy of Apple’s App Store for iPhone, iPod touch: Appiphilia

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:01 pm24 Comments

For the last few weeks, I’ve been staying up late glued to my screen, and frankly it has been wreaking havoc…

Gartner: Apple Mac grabs 10.4 percent share of U.S. home market

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 2:35 pm36 Comments

More home users, and a growing number in the small business sphere, are opting to move to Apple’s computers…

North Carolina middle school proposes iPod touch for each student

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 2:26 pm14 Comments

A Chapel Hill middle school could become the first in the country to give an iPod to every teacher…

More blood on Apple iPhone’s Multi-Touch™ screen: Smartphone & Pocket PC mag becomes iPhone Life

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 1:30 pm33 Comments

For 11 years, Thaddeus Computing has published a magazine based on Microsoft’s mobile Windows operating system…

French mobile carrier Orange admits to limiting iPhone 3G speed

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 12:44 pm27 Comments

Orange – Apple’s iPhone carrier partner in France – has admitted artificially limiting the data speed…

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